Let's Get Growing!

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Courses & Workshops

Ross
Menzies and Katrina Padmore enjoy teaching a range of workshops in various
locations. The core of their teaching is a deeply personal connection with
plants and the natural world. Ross is also a practising
medical herbalist. Both Ross and Katrina are currently training as
Interfaith ministers. Here are some dates for 2018. For more details or
to book a place, please contact Ross Menzies on 07762 244381.

An in-depth, hands-on and
inspiring 10 day course, run over 4 weekends and ideal for anyone who would like a thorough grounding
in practical herbal medicine. Over the last 5 years students have given
this course wonderful reviews. Ross Menzies co-teaches this course with two other
herbalists Jill Schnabel and Sarah Hughes. It is also run in close
association with Nicolette Perry and Professor Elaine Perry at Dilston
Physic Garden.

Cost for 4 weekends: £750. Bookings through Dilston Physic Garden.
*Please note that there are a maximum of 15 participants per course, so do get in touch soon to reserve your place.
You can pay by 6 easy installments of £108/mth if booking 6 months in advance

Plants have always been revered for their healing properties. In many
cultures today (and historically in our own) herbal medicine
practitioners have very close relationships with their healing plants
and describe having a unique communication with them as part of the
healing process.

This course helps you develop the skills needed to sense the more subtle
qualities of plants and to work with plants using these subtle energies
to promote healing – physical, emotional and spiritual. We believe and
have found that working with plants as living evolved and complex
beings, coming to them from a place of deep respect and reverence,
allows a deeper healing to occur. Working with plants as allies can be
profoundly helpful, not only for physical ailments but also on our
personal journey.

During the day we will find our own plant ally to work with us at
this unique stage of our life’s journey and will prepare an essence from
our plant to take home. We will also use shamanic journeying to meet
our plant and to begin the process of working with it.

Please bring a packed lunch; hot drinks will be supplied. You may
wish to bring a camera or sketch pad to help identification of plants
after the course. Please bring waterproofs or an umbrella if it is wet,
as the course will still run.

Walking in nature and gathering medicines and foods is something our
ancestors did not only for survival but also as a means of feeling and being
connected to the natural world. There is no simpler and more powerful
way to feel a sense of connection and belonging and it is just as
powerful for us today.

This is a day of learning how to identify local
‘weeds’ and opening to their many healing and nourishing properties.
Experienced teacher and medical herbalist Ross Menzies takes you on a
journey into the wild and bringing back many wonderful foods and
medicines, for mind body and soul. This day gives you the skills and
confidence to identify herbs, gather them in a careful and respectful
way and how to use or store them. We will make a whole range of
wonderful remedies including tinctures, ointment, poultice decoction and
infusion, to treat many minor ailments as well as discovering how we
can add wild food to our diet helping us to nourish ourselves more
deeply.

Please bring your own lunch (hot drinks will
be supplied) and waterproofs or an umbrella if it’s wet as the course
will still run.

Indigenous
cultures and mystics of all
traditions agree that consciously deepening our connection with nature
can
inspire and inform our spiritual path. Making use of the tranquility of
the Peace Garden and beautiful Sanctuary building, we will open
ourselves to the full potential of
working with nature as an ally in facing life challenges and discerning
guidance.

Tools to aid our
enquiry will include poetry, meditation, reflective writing, group exploration
and simply bringing mindful awareness to being in nature.

Cost: £50, to include seasonal, home-cooked lunch provided by us. £20 deposit to be paid at time of booking.